A feature, not a bug.

The differential between high and low tides in Alaska is crazy to me

Canada apparently get the highest with 11.7 metres (38.4 feet) mean tidal range, which I found out by accident because I was actually looking up the range specifically for the UK out of curiosity, knowing it was high but not realising it would be on the top 3 list (E: with maximum range in the Bristol Channel being 15 metres (49 feet)! ) lol

TIL

Whale was like “if not food, why food shaped?” 😂

Seriously though, that must have been terrifying…

Retail giant Monsoon’s CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting competition, so he can continue to exclusively use them himself

FTFY

The CEO, like all CEO’s is concerned with his own companies profit margin, noting else, but especially not “fairness”.

country’s procurement system is accused of costs being cut at the expense of people’s safety

How unsurprisingly capitalistic of the CCP…

Yeah, unfortunately I’ve been down it before, and the more you look, the worse it gets (I could have included so many more countries and atrocities, but it was too depressing to keep reading through these statistics)…

And you’re exactly right, it’s a reflection of just how much shit gets swept under the rug either by the establishment and its authorities because it reflects badly on them (and tor they don’t want to stop doing whatever horrible thing it is they’ve been getting away with), or by bigots in society who are either happy to remain ignorant, or worse, actively deny anything is happening because the existing structure gives them some level of comfort and privilege (which is of course one of the many ways those in power keep us divided to maintain said power).

The saying goes “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, which is precisely why we aren’t taught it properly (and some of it gets deliberately omitted or even erased).

From the forced sterilisations of disabled people upto the 70s,

Still happening, both in US and EU (couldn’t find a good source on the UK, though I don’t doubt it happens, instead have this horrible statistic Disabled people’s Covid-19 death rate as much as 11 times higher than non-disabled people because we’re not seen as worth saving), and certainly in most other countries too.

And this is just disabled people, Indigenous people (in Canada too, of course), immigrants in detention are still being forced/coerced sterilised, as well as several other marginalised groups targeted in different ways (like systemic racism that leads to higher mortality rates of Black birthing parent and babies during and after pregnancy, UK US Canada).

And to go back to what the op of the thread said, the Trail of Tears, is like the tiniest tip of a monstrous iceberg of ongoing genocide, and that monstrous iceberg is just one of many floating in the American ocean of white supremacist atrocity (and before the Americans get defensive, Yes, other countries do atrocities too, yes citizens there/here are also taught a whitewashed version of history that serves to maintain the state, you may not be alone, but you’re absolutely no better than anyone else).

Thanks!

I wonder if they’ll be able to stop it from happening again, sounds like the sneks found a spot they really like lol

Feel bad for poor doggo though…

Key details missed out one big one - were they being kept by the person (illegally, I would assume?), or did they just really fancy their back garden, infest it, and were a complete surprise to the human residents?

I say feed the Wally (username checks out lmao) to the bears… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So… Be as bad as they are to people trying to escape fascism?

As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories?

It isn’t, just like we said it wouldn’t be before the election, when the cultists refused to listen.

Keith and his cronies are nothing but establishment serving placeholders and future scapegoats for the right to blame for all the ills of society and come back in stronger and more fascist than ever. And when that happens, the cultists will act all surprised and bewildered again because they simply refuse to hear anything that contradicts their deep indoctrination in to passive compliance with the rules.

As for

There may be no nasty impulse to punish ‘skivers’

If you genuinely believe that, you’re not been paying any attention, or are completely oblivious to the masses of ableist and classist dog whistles they’ve been using all along.

Is it really a wonder why we get so much more frustrated with liberals who insist on playing along and cooperating with the system, insisting they care about society and its most vulnerable (to stroke their own egos) while refusing to listen to our warnings (again, to stroke their own egos, after all, they still see us as beneath them), than we are with those who are at least honest about throwing us under the bus? Once again MLK’s quote about white moderates being a bigger barrier to equity than the KKK are proves its depressing accuracy.

You do realise that many people (significantly more since covid in fact) are on benefits because we can’t work, right? And it’s those benefits (disability, employment support) that are getting the worst cuts.

So you’re not technically wrong, but your solution also doesn’t help those of us most targeted.

In case anyone is unfamiliar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era

If only they would do the rest of us the courtesy of visibly branding themselves like that…

Ooh, my username checks out 😂

I’ve had pirated copies on every pc I’ve owned for a couple of decades, “long gone” lmao

Fuck EA, they ain’t seeing a penny from me, and I definitely won’t be engaging in any “ports” that probably exist to scrape my data and charge me more money lol

Sure, but that wouldn’t take a whole line of individuals, that wold take a well organised group of a dozen or two, while more groups of a dozen or two go give the other billionaires a visit with their own trash bag, and others go and give some politicians a visit, and some bigger groups take control of the means of production, all while the largest chunk of working class people build the medical and educational and communal support that they need to pull all of that off and come back to once they’re done.

I know beating elon up sounds like masses of fun to masses of people, but it isn’t your revolution (“your” the individual, not you personally), it’s ours. If you’re genuinely that enthusiastic about being the one to pull the trigger, there will be plenty of opportunity, but you’ll have a much better shot at it if you organise with others (E: even if we go on this being the imaginary world in the comic where the purge is real, if you think in that scenario he wouldn’t have pentagon level security and mow all the people with their bags of batteries down with machine guns, you’ve not been paying attention).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for composting elon, but that alone won’t change much.

Never forget - we are many, they are few, there is enough composting to go around, but more importantly, we need to already be creating the foundations for an alternative, better, society, so that when we abolish the systems that currently govern ours, we have a solid and equitable framework to fall back on and build from.

Oh yeah, they wouldn’t have scrapped it unless it was damaging them somehow (like you say, or possibly by being so transparent they couldn’t even muster any plausible deniability), rather than benefits claimants, as intended.

Thank fuck for miniature, and no doubt temporary, fucking mercies.

The human-run system is already designed to reject as many claims as possible and make it as absolutely difficult as possible for those they don’t flat out reject to get even the lowest rate (again, the default, which, like a rejection, you then have to appeal to get what you’re really entitled to), yet somehow AI would have managed to make it worse.

Don’t think for a second this’ll stop them from trying again, or making the existing system worse still in other ways.

After all, we are the real leeches on the government tax pot that they need to eliminate, not their fellow landlords and capitalists sat next to them on the parliament bench. 🙄